Friday, September 22, 2017

President Maduro does
not claim there is a plot to assassinate him as often as his predecessor did.
This week however, Maduro directly accused opposition leader and president of
the National Assembly, Julio Borges, of being “implicated” in an assassination
plot against him.

“An order has been issued
to assassinate the president of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, and that
order comes from the Oval Office, and Julio Borges is implicated in this
outrage with all his unlimited cynicism, with his unlimited immorality,” said
Maduro.

The president
provided no evidence for his claims, but he had declared on August 19 that US
president Trump’s declarations about Venezuela implied a direct threat to his
life. According
to Maduro:

“The threats made
today by Trump, I know how to exactly interpret them: Donald Trump has threatened
to kill the President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, (…) but I tell
him that if something happened to me, they would regret it for a hundred years,
because the people would rise against imperialism.”

“Evidence” of Borge’s
part in the plot is provided by the Agencia
Venezolana de Noticias (AVN). According to AVN, the position leader is “one
of the main promoters of an interventionist campaign against Venezuela. In the
last weeks he has met several US government high officials to ask for an assault
(arremetida) against the fatherland.”

AVN also cites a previous
two coup magnicidio plot claims made by
the government as evidence for the current plot: The Carpeta
Amarilla (2014), and the Blue
Coup plots (2015, also known as the Jericho
Operation). No evidence has ever surfaced for those two previous plots.

Tuesday, September 12, 2017

For several years on
the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, Venezuelan government sponsored Telesur
has published a piece explaining the “many questions that still linger about
the attack.” (See
here my post of previous years.)

This year’s article
by Telesur is mainly about Scholars for 9/11
Truth, (From its webpage: “Scholars for 9/11 Truth is a non-partisan association of faculty,
students, and scholars, in fields as diverse as history, science, military
affairs, psychology, and philosophy, dedicated to exposing falsehoods and to
revealing truths behind 9/11.

” A spin-off of the group publishes the Journal of 9/11 studies. In the
next months Aposta, Revista de Ciencias Sociales will publish a piece by me, in
Spanish, featuring a detailed analysis of back issues of the journal up to
2014.)

The author writes
that the United States “seems destined by nature to be plagued with misery by
nature acting in the name of justice with devastating hurricanes that are drowning
its economy, as punishment for the immoral and illegal sanctions with which
they [The US] hope to drown the Venezuelan economy.”

Mena Cifuentes also argues
that the punishment the United States is currently receiving is connected to
the 9/11 attacks. According to the author: “Noted scientists, experts in
accidents and explosives, and journalists, several of whom have died in “strange”
accidents, others in exchanges with the police, have attributed the genocide
[of 9/11] to the Yankee government, who used it as a pretext to fight against terrorism
and to unleash against Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Yemen, and Syria,
wars to take over their oil, like they are doing today against Venezuela.”